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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

An indelible story in verse about finding the self, centered on an Indigenous child taken from her home and raised by non-Indigenous parents. While this is an intimate story that the author dutifully and beautifully takes tender care of to make sure the wider implications are known, this is not just the story of one person but of the injustices of a people.

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD | FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY

“This is an incredibly powerful book of poetry that is also fiction but it is so real, and singular, as to defy definition, and I defy anyone to read it and come away unchanged.” —Tommy Orange, author of There There and Wandering Stars

A stunning, multimorphic work of poetry and prose about Indigenous identity


mother is a work rooted in an intimate fracture: an Indigenous child is adopted out of her tribe ...

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